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Answering the Call: How Changes to the Salience of Job Characteristics Affects College Students' Decisions. EdWorkingPaper No. 24-956
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Carly D. Robinson; Katharine Meyer; Chasity Bailey-Fakhoury; Amirpasha Zandieh; Susanna Loeb – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
College students make job decisions without complete information. As a result, they may rely on misleading heuristics ("interesting jobs pay badly") and pursue options misaligned with their goals. We test whether highlighting job characteristics changes decision making. We find increasing the salience of a job's monetary benefits…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Career Choice, Tutoring, Compensation (Remuneration)